My Nonprofit Reviews

We established a new comic art festival in Huntington Beach last weekend and wanted to create an accessible, fun, high quality element aimed at encouraging young people to be creative and develop a interest in and passion for drawing and cartooning. We partnered with the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity having never worked with them before. The whole experience of working with them, both in the organising phase and at the weekend itself, was one of the best I have ever experienced in terms of partnerships. They created a wholly accessible and innovative zone where kids and their families could come and play and create art giving them confidence and creating a thirst for more. I spoke to some of those who took part and they loved it. The Center was generous and enthusiastic and just wish I could bring them to the UK where I also run a festival. The future of our artform , if not civilisation !, is education and I applaud the Center for all it is doing and hope we can work together again in the future.

Julie Tait, Co-Director NCSFest (www.ncsfest.com)